---
title: Welcome to Apache PredictionIO (incubating)!
description: Apache PredictionIO (incubating) Open Source Machine Learning Server
---

## What is Apache PredictionIO (incubating)?

Apache PredictionIO (incubating) is an **open source Machine Learning Server**
built on top of state-of-the-art open source stack for developers and data
scientists create predictive engines for any machine learning task. It lets you:

* quickly build and deploy an engine as a web service on production with
  [customizable templates](/gallery/template-gallery);
* respond to dynamic queries in **real-time** once deployed as a web service;
* evaluate and tune multiple engine variants systematically;
* unify data from multiple platforms in batch or in real-time for comprehensive
  predictive analytics;
* speed up machine learning modeling with systematic processes and pre-built
  evaluation measures;
* support machine learning and data processing libraries such as Spark MLLib and
  OpenNLP;
* implement your own machine learning models and seamlessly incorporate them
  into your engine;
* simplify data infrastructure management.

Apache PredictionIO (incubating) can be [installed](/install/) as a full machine
learning stack, bundled with **Apache Spark**, **MLlib**, **HBase**, **Spray**
and **Elasticsearch**, which simplifies and accelerates scalable machine
learning infrastructure management.

| Getting Started | Developer Guides | ML Education and Usage | PredictionIO SDKs |
| --------------- | ---------------- | ---------------------- | ----------------- |
| [Quick Intro](/start/) | [System Architecture](/system/) | [Comics Recommendation](/demo/tapster/) | [Java](/sdk/java/) |
| [Installation Guide](/install/) | [Event Server Overview](/datacollection/) | [Text Classification](/demo/textclassification/) | [PHP](/sdk/php/) |
| [Downloading Template](/start/download/) | [Collecting Data](/datacollection/eventapi/) | [Community Contributed Demo](/demo/community/) | [Python](/sdk/python/) |
| [Deploying an Engine](/start/deploy/) | [Learning DASE](/customize/) |[Dimensionality Reduction](/machinelearning/dimensionalityreduction/)| [Ruby](/sdk/ruby/) |
| [Customizing an Engine](/start/customize/) | [Implementing DASE](/customize/dase/) ||[Community Contributed](/sdk/community/) |
| [App Integration Overview](/appintegration/) | [Evaluation Overview](/evaluation/) |||
|| [Intellij IDEA Guide](/resources/intellij/) |||
|| [Scala API](/api/current/#package) |||


## Release Notes

A summary of the changes in each release before migrating to Apache Software
Foundation are on GitHub
[here](https://github.com/PredictionIO/PredictionIO/blob/master/RELEASE.md).

## Licensing

Apache PredictionIO (incubating) is licensed under the Apache License, Version
2.0. See
[LICENSE](https://github.com/apache/incubator-predictionio/blob/master/LICENSE.txt)
for the full license text.
